collocate
- Verb. (linguistics, translation studies) (said of certain words) To be often used together, form a collocation; for example ''strong'' collocates with ''tea''.
- Verb. (rare) To arrange or occur side by side.
- Verb. (obsolete, transitive) To set or place; to station.
- Noun. (linguistics) A component word of a collocation.
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